Curated field list
Quirky & Only-in-Coober-Pedy
Grassless golf, a spaceship in the street, a beer-can headstone and a movie crocodile - the gloriously weird side of the opal capital.
Coober Pedy does strange better than just about anywhere. This is a town where you golf on a course with no grass, where a film-prop spaceship sits on the main street, where a miner’s headstone is a welded beer keg, and where you can glide silently over a moonscape pocked with a million mine shafts. Lean into the weird - it’s half the fun.
7 places in this collection
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AttractionsCoober Pedy Opal Fields Golf Club
Golf on a course with no grass - oiled-sand greens, a strip of mat, and a reciprocal arrangement with St Andrews.
Open field note
AttractionsThe Spaceship (Pitch Black Prop)
A film prop spaceship from the movie Pitch Black, parked in town - a fun free photo stop.
- Free
- Good with kids
AttractionsCrocodile Harry's Dugout
The wonderfully eccentric underground home of a former croc hunter - a Mad Max filming location.
- Underground
AttractionsBoot Hill Cemetery
Coober Pedy's main cemetery - a moving, very Coober Pedy place where miners of dozens of nationalities lie, including the famous beer-can headstone.
Open field note
AttractionsCoober Pedy Drive-In Cinema
A classic 1965 outback drive-in - the only one still running in South Australia.
- Good with kids
AttractionsKupi Gliding
Coober Pedy's volunteer gliding club - soar engine-free over the opal fields and gibber plains in some of the clearest, most thermal-rich air in the country.
Opal miningPublic Noodling Area
Free, beginner-friendly fossicking on Jeweller's Shop Road - sift the mullock heaps by hand and keep any opal you find. Open 24/7.
- Free
- Good with kids